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Why Jews No Longer
Support a United Europe

By

David Meyer

Updated Sept. 25, 2003 12:01 a.m. ET

Jews have always been staunch supporters of a united Europe, of the "European ideal." Always until now, that is. More and more, we European Jews are beginning to think we may have been foolish. This reconsideration is not due to the fact that our love has been unrequited -- though no one can deny the European Union's bias toward Palestinians -- but because we've suddenly remembered that a Europe of separate nations has prevented our destruction.

Perhaps my own personal history can shed some light on this. I, once...